Infobase Publishing is an American

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titles and textbooks geared towards the North American library, secondary school, and university-level curriculum markets. Infobase operates a number of prominent

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s, including Facts On File, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Chelsea House (which also serves as the imprint for the special collection series, "Bloom's Literary Criticism" under the direction of

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), and Ferguson Publishing.

History

The private equity firm

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bought Facts on File and Chelsea House in 2005. Infobase bought Films for the Humanities & Sciences in 2007 and the ''

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'' in 2009. In 2017, Infobase acquired The Mailbox lesson plans and ''Learning'' magazine. Veronis Suhler Stevenson sold Infobase to another private equity firm, Centre Lane Partners, in 2018. As well as nonfiction works in print, Infobase and its imprints publish a selection of works in digital, audio-visual and

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formats. Facts On File has been publishing books since 1941. It was owned by CCH from 1965 to 1993. The publisher publishes general reference and trade books. Facts On File acquired Ferguson Publishing, which specializes in career education works, in 2003. Chelsea House was founded in 1966. It is known for multi-volume reference works.

Imprints

* Facts On File * Films for the Humanities & Sciences * Cambridge Educational * Chelsea House Publishing * Bloom's Literary Criticism *

* Ferguson Publishing

References

External links

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Films for the Humanities
available on the

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